Prominent Marijuana Activist Killed by Drunk Driver

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Gabrielle Bluestone

09/04/13 09:05PM

Filed to: Marijuana

Jenny "Kush" Friede, a prominent Denver medical marijuana activist, was killed this weekend after a drunk driver headed the wrong way down an Interstate slammed into her car.

The driver, 27-year-old Rebecca Maez, was arrested for a DUI and vehicular homicide. According to the Denver Post Maez had previously been arrested for a DUI in 2009.

Friede and her boyfriend, Jeremy DePinto, were driving home from a concert around 1 a.m. when Maez hit their car. DePinto, who was driving, suffered injuries.

"She was trying to end the oppression over [marijuana]," DePinto said. "We'd rally at the Capitol the last Saturday of every month for years, trying to tell people that cannabis is safer than alcohol. It's ironic that it was an uninsured drunk driver that killed her."

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HieronymusHiroshige Gabrielle Bluestone 09/04/13 09:09PM

Yeah, that's kinda ironic I guess. In another dimension they, the marijuana activists, hit a drunk driver and the passenger (also drunk) notes the irony.

Gemmabeta HieronymusHiroshige 09/04/13 09:12PM

It would only be ironic if we lived in a world where stoner gangs go out to bash drunks.

Left Handshake HieronymusHiroshige 09/04/13 09:15PM

Nah, most people are extra careful when they drive while stoned. Alcohol inebriation is quite the opposite.

Don't believe me? Let's see the numbers.

RobLoweJob Left Handshake 09/04/13 09:19PM

Except the numbers only really factor in to self reporting high people getting into accidents. It isn't like they test for that shit, except when you die.

Left Handshake RobLoweJob 09/04/13 09:22PM

So you're saying that fatal accidents involving marijuana are rare?

Hatless Süspęçt and 6 others Gabrielle Bluestone 09/04/13 09:18PM

It's like raaaaaain on your weeding day.

ReX13 Hatless Süspęçt and 6 others 09/04/13 09:29PM

Not sure if typo or genius....

Dr.SiriPaiboun Hatless Süspęçt and 6 others 09/04/13 09:34PM

Keep it classy.

JohnMcClanesSmirk Hatless Süspęçt and 6 others 09/04/13 09:42PM

Simpsons already did it.

Hatless Süspęçt and 6 others JohnMcClanesSmirk 09/04/13 09:54PM

It's about the subtleties. Give another read.

Thunder-Lips Gabrielle Bluestone 09/04/13 09:17PM

Jenny Friede is the exact reason why pot needs to be legalized. You don't hear stories about being to stoned and killing people, ya hear stories about drunk assholes that kill people. This shit makes me sick to my fucking stomach, she fought against an institution that, is baseless and research has proven foundless in its claims to make heretics out of the morality of drug use. She deserves to be recognized for her contributions to the anti-proabition movement that is going on at this very moment. Did she ever hurt a fly? No but there are zealots out there that would fight against this cause. What is the difference between a moonshine runner from the 20's and a pot runner from today. I am going to say not much. Just think about it. For the love of everything holy think about it. Somebody who thinks the same way as me is dead, from a drug that is literally poison and thats why it fucks you up. Its how the elite separates us from them.

You might be wrong. Thunder-Lips 09/04/13 09:43PM

If weed was legal and regulated the same way alcohol is and was consumed in the same amounts, the problems with each would be the same.

Philip Wester Thunder-Lips 09/05/13 06:16AM

Or, logically, ban alcohol. Marijuana isn't illegal because you might drive while stoned, by the way. Drunk driving is also a crime.

So the fact that some people drive drunk in no way means pot should be legal.

Mark R. Huffer Thunder-Lips 09/05/13 08:06AM

Hey Thunder-lips, Jenny did live in a state where weed is legal. Nice rant though.

Thunder-Lips Mark R. Huffer 09/05/13 08:19AM

That doesn't mean she wasn't an activist for the cause, and although it has been acceptable in colorado for some time, it only recently was de-criminalized. That being said there are plenty of battlegrounds left.

JohnMcClanesSmirk Gabrielle Bluestone 09/04/13 09:14PM

Yeah, but of course Gawker mentions nothing about the people killed by marijuana. The number will shock you.

Murphys JohnMcClanesSmirk 09/04/13 09:20PM

Ba da bing! <This the noise I make after a joke. If you prefer, I could say "Bazinga" or "Woka woka woka" :)

Thunder-Lips JohnMcClanesSmirk 09/04/13 09:22PM

+1 to you sir...HA

JohnMcClanesSmirk Murphys 09/04/13 09:49PM

I would have gone with this:

RedDwarfGreenBug JohnMcClanesSmirk 09/04/13 10:02PM

Why would they? Practically every logical, free-thinking person knows this.